The best video and music player. Fast and “just works”, plays any file
About this app
Video and audio player that supports a wide range of formats, for both local and remote playback.
Audio:
* Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC1, ATRAC3, ATRAC3Plus and ATRAC9) and PSX ADPCM * Adobe SWF ADPCM and Nellymoser Asao * ALAC * AMR-NB, AMR-WB (a.k.a. G.722.2) * DK ADPCM Audio 3/4, On2 AVC and iLBC * DSS-SP * DTS Coherent Acoustics (a.k.a. DTS or DCA), DTS Extended Surround (a.k.a. DTS-ES), DTS 96/24, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, DTS Express (a.k.a. DTS-HD LBR), DTS-HD Master Audio, QDesign Music Codec 1 and 2 * DVI4 audio codec * Full Rate (GSM 06.10), AC-3 (Dolby Digital), Enhanced AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus) and DTS Coherent Acoustics (a.k.a. DTS or DCA) * iLBC, Opus and Comfort noise * IMA ADPCM * MLP / Dolby TrueHD * MP1, MP2, MP3, AAC, HE-AAC, MPEG-4 ALS, G.711 µ-law, G.711 A-law, G.721 (a.k.a. G.726 32k), G.722, G.722.2 (a.k.a. AMR-WB), G.723 (a.k.a. G.726 24k and 40k), G.723.1, G.726, G.729, G.729D, IEC DV audio and Direct Stream Transfer * QCELP-8 (a.k.a. SmartRate or IS-96C), QCELP-13 (a.k.a. PureVoice or IS-733) and Enhanced Variable Rate Codec (EVRC. a.k.a. IS-127) * RealAudio v1 – v10 * SMPTE 302M * Speex, Vorbis, Opus and FLAC * Truespeech * TwinVQ * Windows Media Audio (WMA1, WMA2, WMA Pro and WMA Lossless), XMA (XMA1 and XMA2), MS-GSM and MS-ADPCM
Containers and muxers:
* 3GP (.3gp) * AIFF (.asf, .wmv) * ASF (.asf, .wmv) * AU (.au) * AVI (.avi) * DivX (.divx) * FLV (.flv) * MOV (.mov) * MP4 (.mp4) * OGG (.ogm, .ogg) * MKV (.mkv, .mka) * MPEG-2 / TS (.ts, .mpg) * MPEG-2 / ES, PS, PVA, MP3 (.mpg, .mp3, .mp2) * NSC (.nsc) * NSV (.nsv) * Nut (.nut) * Real (.ra, .ram, .rm, .rv , .rmbv) * Raw (a52, dts, aac, flac, .dv, .vid) (.a52, .dts, .aac, .flac, .dv, .vid) * True Audio Codec (.tta, .tac) * Ty Tivo (.ty) * Wav (.wav, .dts) * WebM (.webm) * Xa (.xa)
Video:
* Animated GIF * APNG * ASUS V1/V2 codec * ATI VCR1/VCR2 * Autodesk Animator Studio Codec and FLIC * Avid 1:1x, Avid Meridien, Avid DNxHD and DNxHR * AVS video * Cinepak (Apple Compact Video), ProRes, Sorenson 3 Codec, QuickTime Animation (Apple Animation), QuickTime Graphics (Apple Graphics), Apple Video, Apple Intermediate Codec and Pixlet * Divx, DIV1, DIV2, DIV3, mp41, mp42, MPG4, MPG3 * Duck TrueMotion 1, Duck TrueMotion 2, Duck TrueMotion 2.0 Real Time, VP3, VP5, and animated WebP * HQ, HQA, HQX and Lossless * IBM UltiMotion * Matrox Uncompressed SD (M101) / HD (M102) * Microsoft RLE, Microsoft Video 1, Cinepak, Indeo (v2, v3 and v5), Microsoft MPEG-4 v1, v2 and v3, Windows Media Video (WMV1, WMV2, WMV3/VC-1), WMV Screen and Mimic codec * MPEG-1 Part 2, H.261 (Px64), (MPEG-H Part 2), Motion JPEG, IEC DV video and CD+G * RealVideo Fractal Codec (a.k.a. Iterated Systems ClearVideo), 1, 2, 3 and 4 * RTV 2.1 (Intel Indeo 2) * Screen video, Screen video 2, Sorenson Spark and VP6 * Silicon Graphics RLE 8-bit video, Silicon Graphics MVC1/2 * Smacker video and Bink video * SMPTE 314M (a.k.a. DVCAM and DVCPRO), SMPTE 370M (a.k.a. DVCPRO HD), VC-1 (a.k.a. WMV3), VC-2 (a.k.a. Dirac Pro), VC-3 (a.k.a. AVID DNxHD) * SpeedHQ * Theora * TXD * AV1
Licensed under GPL-3.0-only.
What's New in v3.7.1
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
Version history
May 10, 2026 · 47.2 MB · Android API 17–36 · code 13070108
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
SHA-256 4a9144fadfd8606cc5c0e9db892fd24846b7b2efeb1630db5377955d1612b119
May 10, 2026 · 45.9 MB · Android API 17–36 · code 13070107
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
SHA-256 44d46c60f74ac8aa3c94db1ba2b57fc147e26a2b7ef0c33ffae0b7b1d845bd2e
May 10, 2026 · 45.8 MB · Android API 17–36 · code 13070106
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
SHA-256 355ff246a0348c094a256926ea31cbec92701a2faca3d41d49170798c550ee3b
Will it run on your device?
92%
- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- Multiple CPU architectures are covered.
- Aligned with the latest Android target SDK expectations.
Installation Guide
Open Settings on your Android device
Go to Security → Unknown sources (or Install unknown apps)
Enable "Allow from this source" for your browser or file manager
Open the downloaded APK file from your Downloads folder
Tap "Install" and wait for installation to complete
Launch the app from your home screen
Make sure to re-enable Unknown Sources restrictions after installation for security.
How to install this safely
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How to roll back to an earlier version
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SHA-256 Hash
4a9144fadfd8606cc5c0e9db892fd24846b7b2efeb1630db5377955d1612b119
Signing certificate
80535be61eedb9a03b0476a6f493d496c3498770404339ea7a8000f5e61d22c0
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